Mr. President, just over 30 years ago, Ronald Reagan was inaugurated as the 40th President of the United States. It is hard to believe that three decades have passed since he stood in front of this Capitol, just yards away, and announced…

Mr. President, my remarks may take a little longer than 10 minutes, so I ask unanimous consent that I may deliver my remarks in full. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.

It has already been said that the distinction between activity and inactivity is not in the text of the Constitution.

Mr. President, we have come a long way in 1 year. On December 24, 2009--1 day before Christmas--this body passed a radical overhaul of our Nation's health care system. That is right. The majority passed ObamaCare on Christmas Eve. It was…

The Congressional Budget Office, in the past, has said that requiring individuals to purchase a particular good or service was 'unprecedented.'

I have to concede that point. But that still begs the question of whether it should be mandated.

Now, Utah is an original plaintiff in this multi-State lawsuit, and of course, Judge Vinson singled out Utah as having standing as well.

If Congress could impose any mandate on an individual because it may impose a particular mandate on certain individuals, there would be no limits to federal power at all.

I think it is important that we do this as Senators because I believe that among the founding generation, the Founding Fathers, there was no understanding that was more ubiquitous than the idea that what we were creating at the national…

We have to make a number of these decisions on our own regardless of whether the courts are going to do them for us.

if this law is upheld, if this law is within Congress' limited power to regulate commerce among the States...

the powers of the Federal Government are few and defined, whereas those reserved to the States are numerous and indefinite.

wouldn't it also be within Congress' power to tell every American... that we must eat four servings of green leafy vegetables each day?

Ultimately, the stability that we're trying to achieve in Iraq rests with them, those who love freedom in Iraq.

Mr. Chairman, the Supreme Court ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission created an uninhibited voice for special interest spending in our elections and unlimited corporate speech in our public policy debate. Special…

Mr. Chairman, I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following: SECTION 1. TAXPAYER OPTION TO…

Total it up and you will find that the cost of Democrats end-running their own pay-go rule meant almost $280 billion in additional deficit spending. I think this point needs to be very clear. Senate Republican attempts to force our friends…

Mr. President, I rise to express support for the Patent Reform Act of 2011, S. 23, introduced today by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy. Senator Leahy and I, along with a number of our colleagues, have worked for years to…